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EDUCATIONEducation Professionals: a Practical Career GuideEnvironment and Pedagogy in Higher EducationFraternity: An Inside Look at a Year of College Boys Becoming MenStorytelling in a Culturally Responsive Classroom: Opening Minds, Shifting Perspectives, and Transforming Imaginations

FILMTransgender Cinema

GEOGRAPHYHistory of the World, Map by Map

HEALTH AND WELLNESSDiabetes Head to Toe: Everything You Need to Know about Diagnosis, Treatment, and Living with DiabetesThe Elephant in the Room: One Fat Man’s Quest to Get Smaller in a Growing AmericaSick Enough: A Guide to the Medical Complications of Eating Disorders

HISTORYArabs: A 3,000 Year History of Peoples, Tribes and EmpiresThe Archaeology of the Holocaust: Vilna, Rhodes, and Escape TunnelsEgypt: Lost CivilizationsA Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919, by Claire Hartfield (2019 Coretta Scott King Author Award)Henry VIII and the Men Who Made HimMarie of France: Countess of Champagne, 1145-1198A People’s History of the Seward NeighborhoodProblems in Modern Latin American History: Sources and InterpretationsSoldier, Priest, and God: A Life of Alexander the GreatThe Unwomanly Face of War: An Oral History of Women in World War II When the War Came Home: The Ottomans’ Great War and the Devastation of an Empire

LAWDomestic Abuse, Child Custody, and Visitation: Winning in Family Court

LITERATUREBlack Klansman: A Memoir, by Ron StallworthThe Body of the World, by Mary Moore Easter (2019 Minnesota Book Award Finalist for Poetry)The Dragonfly Sea: A Novel, by Yvonne Adhiambo OwuorA Heart in a Body in the World, by Deb Caletti (2019 Michael L. Printz Award for a Book that Exemplifies Literary Excellence in Young Adult Literature) Hello Lighthouse, by Sophie Blackall (2019 Caldecott Medal)Hooper, by Geoff Herbach (2019 Minnesota Book Award Finalist for Young Adult Literature) Let the Children March, by Monica Clark-Robinson, illustrated by Frank Morrison (2019 Coretta Scott King Illustrator Honor Book)Memphis, Martin, and the Mountaintop: The Sanitation Strike of 1968, by Alice Faye Duncan, illustrated by R. Gregory Christie (2019 Coretta Scott King Illustrator Honor Book)Merci Suarez Changes Gears, by Meg Medina (2019 Newbery Medal)The Night Diary, by Veera Hiranandani (2019 Newbery Honor Book)Not Here: Poems, by Hieu Minh Nguyen (2019 Minnesota Book Award Finalist for Poetry) Parable of the Sower: A Novel, by Octavia E. ButlerA Place for Us: A Novel, by Fatima Farheen MirzaThe Rise of the African Novel: Politics of Language, Identity, and OwnershipThe Rough Patch, by Brian Lies (2019 Caldecott Honor Book)We’ll Fly Away, by Bryan Bliss (2019 Minnesota Book Award Finalist for Young Adult Literature) What I Leave Behind, by Alison McGhee (2019 Minnesota Book Award Finalist for Young Adult Literature) Zora and Langston: a Story of Friendship and Betrayal

MEDIARace, Gender, and Image Repair Theory: How Digital Media Change the LandscapeYoung People and the Future of News: Social Media and the Rise of Connective Journalism

MUSICBob Dylan’s Poetics: How the Songs WorkThe Happiness Playlist: The True Story of Healing my Heart with Feel-Good MusicUsing Music in Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy

NURSINGDiabetes Head to Toe: Everything You Need to Know about Diagnosis, Treatment, and Living with DiabetesLearning about Your Genes: A Primer for Non-BiologistsNursing Drug Handbook 2020Sick Enough: A Guide to the Medical Complications of Eating Disorders

PSYCHOLOGYThe Basics of Psychotherapy: An Introduction to Theory and PracticeDesigning and Proposing Your Research Project: Concise Guides to Conducting Behavioral, Health, and Social Science ResearchManaging Your Research Data and DocumentationOur Psychiatric Future: The Politics of Mental HealthParenting Children with Mental Health Challenges: A Guide to Life with Emotionally Complex KidsPersonality Disorders: Elements, History, Examples, and ResearchUsing Music in Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy

RELIGIONAfrican Religions: Beliefs and Practices through History

SCIENCEConversations with Trees: An Intimate EcologyEnvironment and Pedagogy in Higher EducationA Field Guide to the Natural World of the Twin CitiesLearning about Your Genes: A Primer for Non-BiologistsPlanet Hunters: The Search for Extraterrestrial LifeRenewable Energy: A Primer for the 21st CenturyThe Story of Soy

SOCIOLOGYAfter Virginia Tech: Guns, Safety, and Healing in the Era of Mass ShootingsDon’t Label Me: An Incredible Conversation for Divided TimesGuided by the Spirits: The Meanings of Life, Death, and Youth Suicide in an Ojibwa CommunityMilking in the Shadows: Migrants and Mobility in America’s Dairyland

SUSTAINABILITYAddressing Climate Change at the Community Level in the United StatesAgricultural Transformation in Ethiopia: State Policy and Smallholder FarmingEnvironment and Pedagogy in Higher EducationOrganic Sovereignties: Struggles over Farming in an Age of Free TradeRenewable Energy: A Primer for the 21st Century

WOMEN’S STUDIESMarie of France: Countess of Champagne, 1145-1198The Unwomanly Face of War: An Oral History of Women in World War II A Woman of No Importance: The Untold Story of the American Spy Who Helped Win World War II

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